Alpha in a FPGA - omega project created In response to this osnews post

well you can try asking intel legal departmentabout alpha instruction set,From what i know is open , Yep you could walk on gray legal area (towards black)Nobody stops me to create an open core projectLet's call it OmegaCPU for start

Sunday, June 26, 2005

Yesterday it was an iris concert and i was jumping and screaming ,Yah is true i like to scream/sing but don't give me a guitar You will runaway.While jumping i had this "enlightenment" : what the hack we are doingwith our lives : working , working , working and no funMaybe i should try to sing more and more - that's my happiness.Let people see what is inside of me : sometimes rage , somedays furry andone or few days/year harmonyPeople don't know me - I'm crazy enough to jump on stage and to singI did it once , i did it twice (before i went to high scool)Who knows maybe i'm good at music and i'm still blind to really see it.

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Power Efficient Processor Architecture and The Cell Processor

This paper provides a background and rationale for some of the architecture and design decisions in the Cell processor, a processor optimized for compute-intensive and broadband rich media applications, jointly developed by Sony Group, Toshiba, and IBM.

Amd is building fabs like mad: FishKill (with ibm) , Dresden (2 fabs in one)What kept dell from using opterons, altlon64 is called Intell and somethinggreen (not the aliens) , got nothing to do with production.I laugh at apple when they speak like: ibm can't do cpu'sSorry apple if ibm can't do cpus (sony , microsoft, toshiba, nvidia , amd , via can confirm this) then who does ?Name one firm that is selling 64 bit mobile cpus Now and is helped byibm . Hint: acer is selling some of thouse laptops with ferrari logo.

Update:oh wait now they have another testing/research fab in Dresden at computex it was spoted an dual core amd64 portableUpadate:amd/ibm does have another fab in singapore with CharteredAn vague impression that many Cells /DC athlons will be born there in '06

Saturday, June 11, 2005

Thursday, June 09, 2005

Why apple dissapointed people - one word: the cellPeople were expecting something ground breaking likemac-os-x on cell ...When all the rumors were true .... and little younglings cutNooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo

Now they are like dell , you can tell is not bad (centrino , intel brand ...)Apple doesn't think different anymore - the sad part

ps: no more apple related posts (enough spam)back to firebird/linux/cell

"The company can count some high-volume customers for its applications chip. But its baseband chip--the core communications center of a cell phone--had been a flop.

Intel, which did not disclose the maker of the new phone, also said its new baseband chip code-named Hermon--which operates on third-generation cellular networks--is still on track to be introduced in the second half of the year. "

"This is hilarious, it’s like Apple has a performance persecution complex. The one time they decide to switch processors, instead of going with the performance king (AMD), they go with intel. Priceless."

Sunday, June 05, 2005

The Cell Processor Programming Model

A paper will be presented by Arnd Bergmann in 22-25 June at LinuxTag 2005

"Porting Linux to run on Cells PowerPC core is a relatively easy task because of the similarities to existing platforms like IBM pSeries or Apple Power Macintosh, but does not give access to the enormous computing power of the SPUs.

Only the kernel is able to directly communicate with an SPU and therefore needs to abstract the hardware interface into system calls or device drivers. The most important functions of the user interface including loading a program binary into an SPU, transferring memory between an SPU program and a Linux user space application and synchronizing the execution. Other challenges are the integration of SPU program execution into existing tools like gdb or oprofile.

A model has been proposed to provide an interface that attempts to integrate well into the existing set of Linux system calls and enable software authors to easily integrate the use of SPUs into their own libraries and applications."

There is more info about author (He works for Ibm on porting Linux on The Cell )